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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/traffic-management-guidance-on-intervention-criteria-wales-order-2007/schedule/paragraph-51",
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  "legislation": "wsi/2007/1712",
  "legislation_title": "The Traffic Management (Guidance on Intervention Criteria) (Wales) Order 2007",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/traffic-management-guidance-on-intervention-criteria-wales-order-2007",
  "path": "schedule/paragraph/51",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "51",
  "heading": "CRITERION No.2 (Section 16 — the network management duty)",
  "text": "In applying this criterion the Welsh Ministers will address the following questions.\n(a) What action, if any, is the authority planning to take in performing its network management duty?\n(b) What action, if any, has the authority actually taken in the performance of its network management duty?\n(c) What evidence is there to show that the authority consider that such action includes action which will contribute to securing—\n(i) the more efficient use of its network; or\n(ii) the avoidance, elimination or reduction of road congestion or other disruption to the movement of traffic on its road network or a road network for which another authority are the traffic authority?\n(d) What powers to regulate or co-ordinate the uses made of any road (or part of a road) in the road network, if any, do the authority propose to exercise as part of any planned action?\n(e) Has the authority exercised any such powers as part of any action taken?\n(f) Has the authority appointed a traffic manager?\n(g) If so, is the traffic manager performing such tasks as the authority consider will assist it to perform its network management duty?\n(h) What things have the authority identified which are causing—\n(i) road congestion on its road network; or\n(ii) other disruption to the movement of traffic on that network?\n(i) What things have the authority identified (including future occurrences) which have the potential to cause—\n(i) road congestion on its road network; or\n(ii) other disruption to the movement of traffic on that network?\n(j) What possible action has the authority considered could be taken in response to, or in anticipation of, anything so identified?\n(k) To what extent has any such action been taken?\n(l) What specific policies or objectives have the authority determined in relation to different roads or classes of road in their road network?\n(m) What is the outcome of the authority’s monitoring of the effectiveness of its—\n(i) organisation;\n(ii) decision-making processes; and\n(iii) the implementation of its decisions?\n(n) What is the outcome of the authority’s assessment of its performance in managing their road network?\n(o) What is the outcome of the authority’s review of the effectiveness of the arrangements it has in place under section 17 of the Act?",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "word omitted",
      "affecting": "uksi/2013/1644",
      "affecting_title": "The Local Transport Act 2008 (Traffic Commissioners) (Consequential Amendments) Order 2013"
    }
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    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/wsi/2007/1712/schedule/paragraph/51",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T00:00:50.883416+00:00"
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  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}